linux-kernel - Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

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Message-ID: <4574B2E4.8060206@garzik.org>
Date:	Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:44:36 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Bernard Pidoux <pidoux@....jussieu.fr>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

Bernard Pidoux wrote:
> I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not
> have any SCSI device ?

libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would 
otherwise have to recreate.  Also, using SCSI meant that it 
automatically worked in existing installers.

	Jeff

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